May 5, 2009

We are currently working on moving our databases to different geographic locations and try to look for the best approach. One of the suggested ideas was mapping the target server drive and backup directly to mapped network drive on the target server and get rid of copy step after the backup.

After the initial trials, every time RMAN failed to write to the network drive with the error stack below.
ORA-19504: failed to create file "X:\DB_T686079212_S20_P1"
ORA-27040: file create error, unable to create file
OSD-04002: unable to open file
O/S-Error: (OS 3) The system cannot find the path specified.